in London. Newly released Ecuadorean government documents made public late Tuesday Oct. 16, 2018, by Ecuadorean opposition lawmaker Paola Vintimilla, have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate the WikiLeaks
A team of researchers has observed the brightest ultra metal-poor star ever discovered. The star is a rare relic from the Milky Way's formative years. As such, it offers astronomers a precious opportunity to explore the origin of the firststarsthat sprung to life within our galaxy and the ...
Around these newly-discovered vents are huge numbers of different sea creatures and the discovery will aid scientists who are still working to fully understand how these ecosystems function and what role they play in the larger carbon cycling of the planet. Magnapinna squid – also known as Bigfi...
Back in the laboratory, the team found thatC. flexacells form sheets in which all the cells' flagella point in the same direction—just like epithelial cells, which make up skin and many tissues in animals. King notes that these were probably the first tissues to evolve in animals. ...
These neweranimals may also have hunted the giant penguins.1. Which of the fllowing one is NOT a true statement about the newly-discovered fossils of a giant penguin in NewZealand?A. It is as big as an adult.B. It is the largest penguin.C. It is 120 centimetres tall.D. It is ...
The tracks come from localities around Luoping in Yunnan, a well known site of exceptional fossil preservation that has yielded thousands of exquisite fossils of sea creatures, and occasional plants and small terrestrial animals blown in from the nearby islands. ...
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus)—which grow more than 30 feet long—are the largest fish in the world's ocean, but little is known about their movements on a daily basis or over years. A newly discovered juvenile whale shark aggregation off Saudi Arabia i
New, 1000-year-old reefs were discovered in the Galápagos Islands Marine Reserve, a rare discovery of deep-sea coral reefs, with pictures in full color.
which was discovered by Chinese researchers in 1997.Pelodiscus parviformiswas already considered critically endangered. Now that its southern representatives have been assigned to adifferent species, the Spotted Softshell Turtle, the overall population size of each species is even smaller," explains Bal...
Regardless of its geographic origins, the newly discovered species helps disprove assumptions that there was a low diversity of dinosaurs and other fauna in the Late Creaceous Period, the researchers said.As well as the dwarf dinosaurs, the Haţeg Basin was also home to crocodiles, giant pterosa...